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After You'd Gone
Maggie O'Farrell
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2023-08-15
主題
Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Medical
Fiction / Family Life / General
ISBN
059368480X
9780593684801
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=caumEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The stunning, groundbreaking debut novel of wrenching love and grief from the
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Marriage Portrait
and National Book Circle Award Winner
Hamnet
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alice's family gathers at her bedside and as they wait, argue, and remember, long-buried tensions emerge. The more they talk, the more they seem to conceal. Alice, meanwhile, slides between varying levels of consciousness, recalling her past and a love affair that recently ended. A riveting story that skips through time and interweaves multiple points of view,
After You'd Gone
is a novel of stunning psychological depth, marking the debut of a major literary talent.